Jose Mendizabal y Bonilla

Jose Mendizabal y Bonilla (14 August 1891-21 February 1965) was Minister of Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture under the Second Spanish Republic from 30 December 1935 to 19 February 1936, succeeding Paul Joaquin Torres-Blanco and preceding Mariano Ruiz-Funes Garcia.

Biography
Jose Maria Alvarez Mendizabal was born on 14 August 1891 to a bourgeois family, and he was related to Francisco Franco. In 1931, he became a representative of Cuenca Province in the Cortes of the Second Spanish Republic for the Radical Republican Party, and on 30 December 1935-19 February 1936 he served as Armament Minister of Spain under President Niceto Alcala-Zamora, but in 1936 he lost his office after the Frente Popular won power. He died in 1965.